Unix or fp Keystroke Logger

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012, Stanley - stanlyn-com wrote:
>
>Anyone know of a good filePro keystroke logger for sco unix?   
>
>I need it to change employee payments plans from hourly to
>production(keystrokes) for several customers of ours.  They are tired of
>policing the younger generation, thereby if they are wasting time, at least
>they won't be wasting their employer's cash, and after a bit, they will
>start producing or quit.  
>
>And yes, they know about the politics surrounding this hot issue.
>
>How difficult would this be to build for fp apps?  Any ideas? 

I don't know of anything offhand, although a reasonably simple
way to handle this efficiently would be a simple program that
sits between the terminal and FilePro that counts keystrokes
without looking at what they are.

I wrote a shim program several years that was a lot more complex
than this in that the customer's ancient application was
reprogramming Radio Shack DT-100 terminal function keys on the
fly.  Of course the source code wasn't available, not to mention
a scarcity of DT-100s or emulation programs that allowed function
key reprogramming so my program, which forked to two processes.
One looked at the key(s) pressed remapping them for FilePro.  The
other looked at the FilePro output updating the mapping tables in
shared memory for the other one to use.  The biggest problem was
that SCO OpenServer seemed to have a leakage problem with shared
memory which required manual intervention from time to time.

Bill
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